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Denton, Montana - 2 schools
At $21,839 per pupil, Denton Elem ranks #105 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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Schools
$21,839
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Denton Elem operates 2 public schools serving 35 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Fergus County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,839 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 54.6% local, 22.6% state, and 22.8% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 24.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 95.8% White, 2.8% Hispanic or Latino, 1.4% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Denton School, enrolling 36 students (84% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Denton 7-8, at 7 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Denton School accounts for 83.7% of all Denton Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Denton Elem a distant remainder — means Denton Elem-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Denton Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 24.3% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Denton Elem is typically wider than the Denton Elem-aggregate figure suggests.